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as I have burned my finger it is somewhat difficult to write and so will close. Wishing you all (this now includes three)
a merry Christmas I am most loving your Joanna G Muir. Portage City Wis Dec. 22nd 1872. Dear Daniel and Emma Please
accept my choicest? congrat- ulations in that you have become the happy possess- ers of so great wealth, May Heavens richest
blessings rest upon the head of your little illegible ----------------- she be a illegible ------------- to her Mama and Popa?
all the days of her life. Upon seeing so many initial letters I called all the